This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. We arrived at our hotel tired, a little sticky, and carrying the particular fog that comes with overnight travel. Berlin was already awake and already hot. Europe is in the grip of an intense heat […]
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This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Every great trip begins with a story, and ours began before we even left the city. We’d planned a 9 AM departure from the house; enough time to get to Louis Armstrong International without the […]
Nobody tells you that traveling as a couple gets easier and harder at the same time. Easier because you stop auditioning. Early trips carry a kind of low-grade pressure — you want everything to go well, you’re still figuring out who the other person is when things don’t go to […]
We came to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. We did not come to buy a house. Within a week of arriving, we were sitting somewhere in the French Quarter trying to figure out how to become homeowners in a city we hadn’t planned to live in. The rental we’d booked […]
If we could go back and talk to our younger selves as we packed for our first trip together 27 years ago, we would say one thing: “Put it back. You don’t need it.” In the early days, we were “just in case” packers. We packed for every possible weather […]
Over 27 years of travel, we’ve bought our fair share of trinkets. We have shelves of wood carvings, decorative bowls, a collection of caps, and enough magnets to cover three refrigerators. But if you asked us to describe our favorite memories from a trip five years ago, we wouldn’t talk […]